Force

Efficacy; power in law to bind; strength; compulsory power; mere strength or power exercised without law, or contrary to law; violence. Force and arms: a phrase in the old law of trespass and disseisin, importing that the act was committed by multitude of people, with arms or weapons of offense; also anciently a necessary phrase in pleading, and still used in declarations for trespass in criminal indictments. In Scots law. Coercion; duress.